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Technology meets humanity with adaptive devices
05-11-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Forget cool new gadgets or killer-ap software. "We're hacking the human," said Frank Moss, director of MIT's Media Lab, in introducing "H2.0: New Minds, New Bodies, New Identities," the lab's May 9 symposium.
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